Our Prayer for the Harvest Season

Eternal God, teach us first to treasure you

above all things. In this season of fasting and prayer,

bring to our awareness those who hunger and thirst

for righteousness, companionship and belonging.  

May our time apart from the table cultivate

a willingness and urgency to bring others to it.

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Lord Jesus, we believe we are called together

into a work of which we cannot yet know the fullness.  

We feel the weight of the waiting, as we

practice everyday disciplines of prayer and fasting.

And yet, even through such ordinary means,

you form us in your image by your extraordinary grace.  

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Holy Spirit, we prepare our hearts to encounter you

where mundane moments become holy moments.  

Where practical labors become sacred ones.  

In our daily, small, repetitive tasks

may we exist only to spend ourselves for love

after the example of Christ, our Savior.

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In your hands, let that increasing devotion

be demonstrated in abundant giving, that we might

live generously and graciously toward others,

the way you, O God, live toward us.

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May the measured rhythms in which we move,

and the gifts we share in this harvest season,

accrue like the clues of a treasure map,

revealing where the people of Christ Church

have hidden both our hearts and our hope.

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Amen.